Under the Staircase
Karl Whitney: Hans Jonathan, Runaway Slave, 19 October 2017
The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan
by Gisli Palsson, translated by Anna Yates.
Chicago, 288 pp., £19, October 2016,978 0 226 31328 3 Show More
by Gisli Palsson, translated by Anna Yates.
Chicago, 288 pp., £19, October 2016,
“... Jonathan left only a few traces of himself in the historical record, but they’re enough to allow Gisli Palsson, a professor of anthropology at the University of Iceland, to sketch a remarkable life. ‘Solid facts are so often lacking,’ he writes, ‘because silence served the interests of the rich and powerful.’ Slaves were itemised as property, or ... ”
